Literary Theory

• streams of consciousness
• multiple points of view
• discontinuous narrative
• breaking genre boundaries
• open use of intertextuality
• indeterminacy
• breaking of genre boundaries
• eclecticism
• collage
• deliberate revealing of their constructedness (metafictive techniques) Wiesner's The Three Pigs, Browne's Voices in the Park, Bear Hunt
• delight in games (called 'ludism' and 'ludic' in postmodern criticisms)
• parody
• pastiche
• surrealism
• metafiction
• Rejecting the distinction between 'high' and 'popular' art - this is where there is a distinction between modernism and postmodernism
• bricolage - the use of bits and pieces of older works to produce a new work - again Browne's works are an obvious choice to explore this.

• Have plot, character and setting been used in nontraditional ways?
• Are multiple genres present?
• Is playfulness present, providing a mockery of traditional forms?
• Has the narrator's voice been used in an unusual way to position the reader and to convey meaning?
• Is the depiction of text, plot, character and setting forcing the reader/viewer to construct meaning?
• Are different illustrative styles used?
• Are book layout and format unusual?
• Is the discourse between written and illustrative text mismatched?
• Is intertextuality present (in any form or degree)?
• Is it possible to have multiple readings for a variety of audiences?
• Is self-referentiality present, drawing readers' attention to the fact that the text is constructed, thus referring to itself?